Those who like to spend time in the country but rarely go hiking know how difficult it can be to keep matches dry, quickly start a fire or prepare a hot breakfast. However, experienced travelers know how to make homemade products for a hike with their own hands without much effort. Each of these devices at a minimum cost will greatly facilitate the life of beginners and experienced tourists.
Travel jet oven
Perhaps this is the most expensive tourist craft for the trip, which will be discussed. The fact is that for its manufacture you will need to purchase two small stainless steel mugs in advance. Such a stove will make it easy to heat water for tea or fry scrambled eggs. Of course, a gas primus stove is much more convenient in this regard. But gas can run out, and this little contraption runs on wood, which can be found in abundance in any planting.
For work you will need:
- inexpensive 10cm and 12cm stainless steel mugs;
- masking tape or strip of paper;
- stainless steel strip 25 cm long and 3-4 cm wide.
In addition, you need to prepare tools:
- grinder or hacksaw;
- roulette;
- hammer;
- drill and drill bits;
- marker;
- pliers;
- core;
- metal scissors.
What to do
In order to make such a homemade for a hike, it is important to act very carefully and in accordance with the following instructions:
- We start by processing a mug of a smaller diameter. First of all, cut off the handle - you won't need it.
- Now we carefully grind the places of its attachment with a grinder using a cutting disc. If necessary, help yourself with pliers. The result should be a kind of stainless steel glass.
- Departing from the edge of the workpiece about one centimeter, we paste masking tape around the circumference. Peel it off again and mark the strip into 12 divisions. This is necessary in order to drill 12 holes around the circumference of the workpiece at the same distance from each other. If there is no tape, you can use a regular strip of paper, moistening it a little with water.
- We transfer the markup back to the mug, paint over the desired places with a marker and use a drill and a drill to make small holes.
- Remove the adhesive tape and drill the resulting holes to a diameter of 10 mm.
- Go to the bottom of the workpiece. There you need to mark 21 holes. Toit turned out nice and neat, you can outline the contour of the bottom on a sheet in a box and first mark the holes there.
- Having slightly moistened the paper with water, glue the workpiece to the bottom and core the places of future holes. We mark them with a thin drill, and then increase the diameter of each to 7-8 mm.
- Now let's get to work with the second, larger mug. We turn it over and on the bottom we mark a circle with a diameter of 10 cm in the center.
- In the center of the mug we drill a convenient hole and cut out a circle with scissors for metal.
- In the upper part of the mug, also stepping back a little from the edge, we drill several holes with a diameter of 10-12 mm, evenly distributing them around the circumference.
- Assembling the stove. To do this, turn a large mug upside down and insert a metal glass with holes made from a smaller mug into the resulting hole (in the normal position, bottom down). The workpiece will be tight to enter, so you can place a small board on top and gently tap on it with a hammer.
- It remains to make a cross. To do this, you need a steel strip. We cut it in half, then cut each half in the middle so that the parts can be inserted one into the other.
The stove is ready. If you install it on a flat area and melt it, the fuel supply is enough even to boil a kettle. This will keep the handle cold so that the device can be safely extinguished.or move to the desired location.
"Bombs" for the fire
Considering homemade products for hiking and tourism, it is impossible not to pay attention to lighting a fire. Those who often do this in nature, especially after rain, know that this is not an easy task. In order for the fire to always flare up quickly and easily, it is better to stock up on special paraffin "bombs" before going out. Making them is very easy. You will need:
- egg cartons;
- cotton fiber, such as cotton wool;
- wax candles (2-3 pieces).
Everything is done very simply. Put a lump of cotton wool in the cells of a cardboard stencil - it is better to tear it and tamp it a little. In an unnecessary tin can in a water bath, melt the candles, after cutting them into pieces.
Pour the cells with cotton wool with melted wax, wait until everything hardens. Using a clerical knife, cut the stencil into pieces and wrap each "bomb" in cling film. Each blank, set on fire with a match or lighter, will burn stably for at least twenty minutes. This is enough to dry the wet brushwood a little and kindle a fire.
Filter bottle
And here is another useful home-made for a hike. With its help, you will not be left without tea, even if the entire supply of drinking water is used up. The main thing is that there is a small river or rates nearby.
To make a simple filter, you need to prepare:
- plastic bottle;
- a small ball of cotton or 3-4 cotton pads;
- polybag;
- a piece of cloth, such as a clean handkerchief;
- a package of activated charcoal - if not, a few charcoals from yesterday's fire will do just fine.
Working order
The scheme for creating a homemade filter is very simple:
- Cut off the bottom of the bottle, and make several holes in the cork. Screw on the cork and turn the bottle upside down.
- We plug the neck with a ball of cotton or put 2-3 disks there.
- The next layer is crushed activated charcoal tablets. The more of them, the better. If you are using charcoal, then the pieces should be broken a little so that they lie as close to each other as possible.
- Coal is again covered with cotton pads or cotton wool.
- To keep the filter from clogging, put a clean handkerchief on top.
- Cut off a corner of a plastic bag or make holes in it. Put the cellophane in the bottle.
- Now add a layer of clean river sand. If there are small pebbles on the shore, they can also be used by placing the topmost layer.
Pay attention! The layers should be such that there is room on top for water.
The filter from improvised materials is ready. Water obtained in this way must be boiled (at least ten minutes) in order to finally get rid of various microorganisms and pathogenic bacteria.
Hot gun withoutelectricity
It happens that on a hike you need to urgently fix something. How to do it? It's best to grab some hot gun rods from home. But how to use them? Find out now.
To make a Camping Hot Pistol you will need:
- lighter;
- knife;
- tin can;
- duct tape.
It is very easy to make such a useful and necessary homemade for a hike:
- using a knife, cut off the bottom and top of the can, and cut it along itself so that we get a sheet of thin tin;
- roll a small bag out of it, fasten it with electrical tape;
- cut off the tip so that glue passes through the hole;
- with the help of electrical tape we fasten the lighter from below like a pistol trigger;
- insert the glue stick into the hole.
The device is ready! Now it will be very easy for you to seal up a torn boot or make minor repairs to equipment.
